Atlanta's MASTODON is releasing clips of stories from the road over the last few months — one per week. View the first installment below. MASTODON's video for the song "Sleeping Giant" has been posted at this location. Revolution-Music.dk conducted an interview with MASTODON in early July prior to the band's appearance at the ...

Veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION and controversial Swedish black metallers SHINING have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Inferno metal festival, set to take place March 19-22, 2008 at the Rockefeller and John Dee venues in Oslo, Noway. The full lineup will be announced at the Inferno kick-off party at John Dee on January ...

A video interview with Swedish metallers SCAR SYMMETRY conducted by "Angel of Metal" at this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, which took place August 16-18 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England, can be viewed below. Called "masters of melody, complexity, and aggression" by Kerrang! magazine and praised by Metal Hammer for their "sickeningly good riffery," ...

Samantha Morgan of 2TheAdvocate.com reports: When you think of METALLICA, does the image of women playing the harp enter your mind? Didn't think so. However, there is a new cover band on the scene doing just that. After completing the masters program in early 2006 at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., ...

Fan-filmed video footage of Taiwanese black metal band CHTHONIC performing at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday, August 30 as part of this summer's Ozzfest 2007 tour can be viewed below. CHTHONIC will continue its historic "UNlimited" tour next month, when it will perform its first headlining concerts in America. ...

SORRY & THE SINATRAS, the band featuring Scott Sorry of THE WILDHEARTS on guitar/vocals and Lenny Thomas (ex-TRASHLIGHT VISION) on drums, has posted a live version of a new song, "Riverside", on the group's MySpace page. The recording is from a one-off surprise gig at a benefit for MDA in New England last ...

Former SKID ROW/SAIGON KICK drummer Phil Varone will be showing a condensed version of his movie "Waking Up Dead", followed by a lecture about his story documented in the film, on Thursday, September 6 at 8:00 p.m. at the ACME Theater (135 No. La Brea Ave.) in Los Angeles, California. After the lecture Phil will ...

LEAVES' EYES — the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY (who are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull) — is currently touring North America as the support act for KAMELOT. "The shows have been great so far," says Krull. "Even if we felt the long ...

Royal Underground announced it will launch its debut men's jewelry line later this year. Royal Underground, co-creators Nikki Sixx, the bassist for world-renowned rock band MÖTLEY CRÜE, and fashion icon, Kelly Gray styled the collection in conjunction with Mitchell Binder of King Baby, the high-profile jewelry brand. The 20-piece line, which will hit stores before ...